29 Nov 2012 11:15 am EST (4:15 pm UTC at Lake Untersee)
Lake Untersee
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 26 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
With the small 25 cm diameter sampling hole opened in the south basin of Lake Untersee, Valery, Vladimir and Michael collected 30 liters of water that is now being filtered in […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 25 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Looks like our nice weather may continue for a few days. Today Alfonso, Michael and I installed two small met stations to collect wind/temp/RH at two locations around the lake.
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 24 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
We are now fully operational at the Lake Untersee, all the tents are up and the weather has been cooperating nicely with little wind and sunny skies. I guess we need […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 21 November 2012, Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica
Received from Dale Andersen Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica, on 21 November 2012 via Iridium email:
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: Lake Untersee, Antarctica (Gigapixel Panorama) 7 March 2012
Three and a half billion years ago our planet was quite different and Earth’s earliest biosphere was dominated by microbial communities – complex multicellular organisms were not to evolve for […]
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Astrobiologists Discover Strange Benthic Microbial Mats in Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Photosynthetic microbial mats forming large conical structures up to half a meter tall have been discovered by astrobiologists in Lake Untersee, Antarctica. This research is described in an article in […]
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Video: Astrobiologists Diving Under The Ice In Antarctica: Getting Out of the Water
Dale Andersen: Our research in the perennially ice-covered lakes of Antarctica involves long, hard days, but they are always fun and exciting.
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Diving Through A Microbial Landscape in Lake Untersee, Antarctica
There’s not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to interest anglers looking to land the big one. But for scientists who want to know more about […]
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In Situ Measurements of Atmospheric Methane at Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for approximately 20% of the observed greenhouse effect. With an atmospheric lifetime of about ten years, methane levels […]